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Voting and Elections

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2025 Virginia Voter Pocket Guide

Vintage 1915 woman suffrage poster featuring a U.S. map. Yellow states represent equal suffrage, black represent male suffrage. Urges voting in November.

Vote For The Woman Suffrage Amendment In November! (1915).

Courtesy of the Richard F. Brush Art Gallery. https://jstor.org/stable/community.29460384

How to Register to Vote:

First Time Voter

Voter Registration
- Register to Vote, Voter Forms
Virginia Department of Elections
- Voter Registration, Casting a Ballot, Results/Reports, Candidate and PAC information, Election Law
Virginia ID Requirements for Voting
- One form of photo ID. A full list may be found here.
- Anyone without an id on election day will cast a provisional ballot.
- More information: https://www.elections.virginia.gov/registration/voterid/

Absentee Voter

College Student

Military and Overseas Voters

Federal Voting Assistance Program

Ancient coin depicting two figures in a raised relief. One figure appears to hold a jug, while the other is walking. Inscriptions and patterns surround them.

Denarius of P. Licinius Nerva: voters at the Comitium. (c.106 B.C.(?)).

https://jstor.org/stable/community.13583546

A bustling historical street scene with diverse people socializing and engaging in various activities. The background features colonial architecture and American flags. The setting conveys a lively, communal atmosphere.

Lawson, Alexander, 1773-1846. (ca. 1846.). Election Day at Independence Hall 1815. Historical Society of Pennsylvania. https://jstor.org/stable/community.14612264

Candidates & Referendums
find your local Candidates and Referendums using the State site
Who's My Legislator?
An online tool where the public at-large can determine who are their Virginia House and Senate representatives, as well as those in the U.S. House and Senate.
Chesapeake Elections
Voter Registration, sample ballots based upon where you live, and Absentee Deadlines for the November 4, 2025
Norfolk Elections
Voter Registration, sample ballots based upon where you live, and Absentee Deadlines for the November 4, 2025
Portsmouth Elections
Voter Registration, sample ballots based upon where you live, and Absentee Deadlines for the November 4, 2025
Virginia Beach Elections
Voter Registration and Absentee Deadlines for the November 4, 2025
Virginia Public Access Project
Find more about your legislators, and where their funding comes from.

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